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2020s
Mercy
Byte-Sized Overview: In Los Angeles in 2029, criminal justice has finally achieved maximum efficiency by removing lawyers, juries, lengthy trials and apparently…
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2020s
The Tomorrow War
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: When time travelers from 2051 interrupt the World Cup (rude) to announce that humanity is about to be wiped…
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2010s
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Katniss and Peeta return home after winning the Hunger Games, but their victory has made them a symbol of…
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1970s
Logan’s Run
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a gleaming domed city of the future, humanity lives in luxury… with one catch: nobody lives past the…
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2000s
The Island
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Lincoln Six Echo lives in a sterile utopia where survivors of Earth’s contamination await transfer to “The Island” —…
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2000s
Minority Report
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In 2054, murder has been eliminated… thanks to a predictive justice system that arrests people before they commit the…
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1990s
Starship Troopers
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a future where citizenship is earned through military service, a handsome idiot and his high school friends sign…
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2010s
Divergent
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Society is divided into five personality-based factions to keep the peace. But when a teenage girl doesn’t fit into…
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2010s
The Hunger Games
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a future where the government entertains the masses with televised teen death matches, a girl from a poor…
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2000s
I, Robot
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a near-future Chicago where humanoid robots are everyday helpers, a detective with serious trust issues investigates the death…
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1990s
12 Monkeys
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a plague-ravaged future, a convict is sent back in time to stop the virus that wiped out humanity…
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1990s
Deep Impact
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A teenage astronomer discovers a comet on a collision course with Earth. As the world prepares for possible extinction,…
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1970s
Soylent Green
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In an overpopulated, climate-wrecked future, a cop investigates a corporate murder — only to uncover the horrifying truth behind…
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1970s
Silent Running
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Earth’s last forests are floating in space, cared for by a botanist who loves nature more than people. When…
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Pre-1950
Things to Come
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A century-long war devastates the world, followed by a plague and then a techno-utopia where humanity aims for the…
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2020s
Mickey 17
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Meet Mickey. He dies. A lot. But each time, a new clone wakes up with most of his memories…
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1990s
Demolition Man
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a sterile future where swearing is banned and Taco Bell reigns supreme, a cryogenically frozen cop is thawed…
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2010s
Alita: Battle Angel
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A discarded cyborg girl wakes up in a scrapyard and discovers she’s the deadliest warrior of a forgotten war.…
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2000s
Sunshine
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A spaceship crew heads toward a dying sun with a nuclear bomb the size of Manhattan — hoping to…
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2010s
Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A PR officer with zero combat skills gets stuck in a time loop, reliving Earth’s final battle against an…
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2000s
Children of Men
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a future where humans have mysteriously lost the ability to reproduce, a disillusioned man must escort the first…
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Pre-1950
Metropolis
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a futuristic city ruled by elites, a mad scientist creates a robotic double to manipulate the masses. Class…
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1960s
Planet of the Apes
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: An astronaut crash-lands on a strange planet ruled by hyper-intelligent apes, only to discover humanity’s true fate was buried…
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2020s
Dune: Part One
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A gifted heir travels to a deadly desert planet where betrayal, prophecy, and sandworms collide. Destiny calls, spice flows,…
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